The View From Europe
U.S. diplomats have a tough job reconciling American interests with those of the Continent.
IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1An American diplomat's
Today, ambassadors venture outside only with a sizable protective detail. They confront contentious transatlantic issues that drag on without resolution. And attitudes toward the United States are markedly less favorable than they were five years ago.
Polls by the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project show that in Britain, France, Germany and Spain, favorable opinion of the United States has slipped by as many as 30 percentage points since 2000, to the low 40s.
Anti-Americanism, write Andrew Kohut and Bruce Stokes in their new book, America Against the World (Times Books, 2006), once focused on our government and its policies. But now, strong hostility toward President Bush and our intervention in Iraq has spilled over to affect foreigners' views of the American people as well, the Pew polling indicates.
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